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The Gregorian calendar is the most widely used calendar in the world today. It is a reform of the Julian calendar , first proposed by the Calabrian doctor Aloysius Lilius , and ...
The Gregorian Calendar—History
September 2, 1752, was a great day in the history of sleep. That Wednesday evening, millions of British subjects in England and the colonies went peacefully to sleep and did not ...
The Infoplease Perpetual Calendar
Note: The first year recorded by this calendar is 1583, the first full year of the Gregorian calendar . 1753 was the first full year in which the U.S. (then a British colony) began ...

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Gregorian Calendar, calendar introduced by Pope Gregory XIII that is still in use and is a modification of the previous Roman calendar.

For information on:

history of the calendar, see Calendar; Pope Gregory XIII

defects in chronologies and variations in dates, see Chronology; Calendar Reform

revolution and the Gregorian calendar, see French Republican Calendar; Russian Revolution

calculation of particular dates on the Gregorian calendar, see New Year's Day; Hanukkah; Easter; Millennium; Bloody Sunday

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